How Linux Saved My Files and My Job (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

This Linux Journal author used BG-Rescue Linux to save data from a "knackered" NTFS-based drive. "The current version of BG-Rescue Linux is 0.3.1, which is compiled with kernel version 2.4.24, and it supported a host of Ethernet devices--it even had USB and PCMCIA network device support. A host of command-line utilities are provided by BusyBox, and BG-Rescue Linux uses the uClibC C library. What really made my eyes light up was the inclusion of NTFS support."

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How Linux Saved My Files and My Job (Linux Journal)

Posted May 25, 2004 20:36 UTC (Tue) by Soruk (subscriber, #2722) [Link]

Been there.. and it's not fun at all when something pretty vital decides to give up the proverbial ghost. Admittedly, in my situation (my mother's Vaio laptop) I used a Knoppix CD and backed up to a USB hard disc. Also, where I work a fairly important WinNT box decided to go the way of the dodo, and like the LJ author my colleagues found the "typical" ways of trying to get anywhere didn't work. Again, Knoppix got in far enough to get all the data out.

I now keep a Knoppix CD somewhere (hopefully safe!) in the car. Knowing my luck the day I don't have it with me will be the day I need it.

Another rescue disc that has got me out of more than a few holes a few years back is that old bastion, tomsrtbt.

How Linux Saved My Files and My Job (Linux Journal)

Posted May 29, 2004 17:34 UTC (Sat) by stock (subscriber, #5849) [Link]

Well there's many rescue kits out there. The one I offer has been present
for a long time :

http://crashrecovery.org/

It also does ntfs resizing, and ext2/ext3 resizing, but that only got
some broader use and attention after I published some human readable
documentation. credits should go to where credits are due. Sofar until
this very day, i haven't charged a single user for the CRK. As a side
note i mention that http://crashrecovery.org/ consists of 3 independant
ftp/http servers, so that the offered docs and iso's are downloadable at
all times.

cheers,

Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net